Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

By Margaret Macmillan format: trade paperback publication: September 2003 ISBN: 9780375760525

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Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Winner of the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.

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